Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State on Tuesday said that the restructuring of Nigeria was necessary for the nation to actualise its aspirations.
Dankwambo made the statement in Lagos when he visited members of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party.
He said most the challenges the country was faced with were because of the weak federal system it was operating.
The governor, a presidential aspirant in the PDP, said the country must drift towards true federalism in order to achiev

The Peoples Democratic Party says it will, henceforth, resist any attempt to rig it out in future elections, beginning with the Osun governorship election scheduled for September 22.
PDP made the vow in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan on Tuesday in Abuja.
Ologbondiyan said that it had become manifest that the ruling party was interested in rigging elections, saying the PDP would henceforth contend with such in all ramifications and magnitude, to discomfi

24 hours after the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki held a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the Gombe State governor and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential aspirant, Ibrahim Dankwanbo held another closed-door meeting with the former president.
Continue reading Nigerians never asked if Buhari was qualified to make the change – Dankwanbo at Vanguard News.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday called former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman a "dog," and his campaign took legal action against her as the two former reality TV stars escalated their public feud.

States such as Wisconsin helped drive Donald Trump’s surprising presidential win two years ago, and Tuesday's primaries there and in neighboring Minnesota could serve as a barometer of opposition strength headed into the November midterm elections.

White House national security adviser John Bolton will meet Russian officials in Geneva next week as a follow-up to the summit meeting that President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had in Helsinki last month, the White House said.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it will, henceforth, resist any attempt to rig it out in future elections, beginning with the Osun governorship election scheduled for September 22.
Continue reading PDP vows to resist attempt to rig it out in future elections at Vanguard News.

Attorneys for Paul Manafort rested their case on Tuesday without calling any witnesses, including the former Trump campaign chairman himself, who told the judge he did not want to testify in his own defense against bank and tax fraud charges.

Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta
A governorship aspirant in Ogun State on the platform of African Democratic Congress, Gboyega Isiaka, says he will open up the rural areas in the state by constructing the neglected roads if he wins the election in 2019.
Isiaka said this at Gangan Square, Ota, while concluding his week-long tour of the communities in Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area.
He noted that the current administration only embarked on projects that suited it, rather than by consulting w

The Federal Government says it has no hand in the call for resignation or impeachment of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, because “it is purely party affairs.’’
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made government’s position known on Tuesday when he paid advocacy visit to the Abuja office of Blueprints Newspaper.
He said that the ruling party, All Progressives Congress’s demand for Saraki’s resignation was legitimate.
The min

An 11-year-old boy managed to hack into a replica of Florida's election results website in 10 minutes and change names and tallies during a hackers convention, organizers said, stoking concerns about security ahead of nationwide votes.

Former Vice President and Presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that he is not desperate to be President of the country.
Continue reading I am not desperate to be President, says Atiku at Vanguard News.

U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign has filed an arbitration against former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman for allegedly violating a nondisclosure agreement, ABC News reported on Tuesday, citing a senior Trump campaign official.

The Comrade Adams Oshiomhole led National Working Committee NWC of the All Progressives Congress APC Tuesday met with the party caucus in the National Assembly to evolve strategies towards reconvening the two chambers of the legislature.
Continue reading Dogara absent as Oshiomhole meets NASS APC Caucus at Vanguard News.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's lawyer on Tuesday said his legal team chose not to mount a defense in his trial over alleged tax and bank fraud because U.S. prosecutors had not met the legal bar needed to prove their case.

Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State on Tuesday visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his Presidential Library Complex in Abeokuta.
Although the governor declined to speak on what he discussed with the former president, it is believed the visit was in connection with his presidential ambition ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The governor, accompanied by members of his campaign organisation, had held a closed door meeting with the former president.
But addressing leaders and memb

Presidential aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party, such as Attahiru Bafarawa, Ibrahim Dankwambo and Senate President Bukola Saraki, appear to be competing for the endorsement of retired leaders of Nigeria, hopping from Minna to Abeokuta, where coincidentally the ex-leaders have their homes on the hilltop.
Continue reading Saraki, Bafarawa, Dankwambo go to the hilltop to stop Buhari at Vanguard News.

Enyioha Opara, Minna
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sule Lamido, on Tuesday declared that on no account should the name of the party be changed to satisfy those that want to defect to it.
Lamido, who made the declaration while addressing proposed delegates to next month’s national convention of the party, said anyone not satisfied with the present name could leave the party.
Several members and parties in the coalition that recently teamed up with the PDP to wrest power from

Alexander Okere, Benin
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday dismissed insinuations that he was desperate to emerge as president through the 2019 presidential election.
Atiku said that despite claims by his critics that he was bent on becoming president, he was qualified to contest the presidential election and that he has the right ideas to address the challenges affecting the country.
The Peoples Democratic Party presidential aspirant spoke during his visit to delegates of the Edo St

John Alechenu, Abuja
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has reiterated his call for the impeachment of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
He made the call at a meeting with the APC Senators and members of the House of Representatives, in Abuja, on Tuesday.
Oshiomhole said Saraki’s removal from office is a task that must be done because the party and its majority lawmakers would not accept minority rule.
The party chairman accused a section of

Success Nwogu, Ilorin
A high court in Ilorin, Kwara State, presided over by Justice T.S. Umar on Tuesday restrained the Kwara State House of Assembly from suspending a member representing Balogun/Ojomu constituency of Offa in Offa Local Government Area of the State, Mr. Saheed Popoola.
Popoola is the only state lawmaker of the All Progressives Congress who did not defect with the Speaker, Dr. Ali Ahmad, and 22 other members of the House.
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THE Presidency on Tuesday said that those insinuating that the European Union, the United States and the Saudi Arabia were persuading President Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019 were those afraid of their shadows.
Continue reading 2019: Those afraid of defeat persuading Buhari not to seek re-election- Presidency at Vanguard News.

Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, on Tuesday said the outcome of the bye-elections won by the ruling All Progressives Congress over the weekend were pointers to the outcome of the 2019 presidential election.
According to a statement by his spokesman, Lawrence Ojabo, the SGF spoke while receiving a delegation of the Kogi State APC, including the newly elected member representing Lokoja-Kogi Federal Constituency, Haruna Isah.
“The outco

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday resolved to elect candidates who will fly the flag of the party at next year’s general elections through direct primaries which will involve all members of the party.
Continue reading 2019: Tinubu hails Osinbajo as Lagos APC adopts direct primaries at Vanguard News.

Ahead of the 2019 governorship and federal parliamentary elections, leaders and stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo South Senatorial District have resolved to adopt the consensus approach in the selection of the party’s governorship candidate. They also resolved to use consensus method in choosing candidates for various elective offices in each of the constituencies in the Senatorial District.
Continue reading Oyo guber: PDP stakeholders back consensus option at Vangu

In a bid to reduce unemployment level in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday promised to give two million (2m) Nigerians collateral free loans to start up a business.
Continue reading Buhari strikes again, promises to give 2m Nigerians free loans at Vanguard News.

A Kwara High Court in llorin on Tuesday restrained the State House of Assembly from investigating the allegations of certificate forgery, fraud and issuance of dud cheque against a member, Saheed Popoola.
Popoola, representing Ojomu-Balogun Constituency in Offa Local Government area, was the only member who did not defect to the Peoples Democratic Party with other 23 lawmakers during last Wednesday’s plenary session.
Justice T.S Umar, in a motion exparte filed by Salman Jawondo, counsel to

An Ikeja High Court has dismissed the murder charge filed against Mr. Moshood Salvador, the chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Salvador was remanded in the Kirikiri Prisons following his arraignment at a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court alongside 10 others on a two-count charge of conspiracy and unlawful killing on July 25.
During Tuesday’s proceedings, the vacation judge, Justice Obafemi Adamson, dismissed the charge after entertaining submissions from

An Ikeja High Court has dismissed the murder charge filed against Mr Moshood Salvador, the Chairman of the Lagos State Chapter of the PDP.
Salvador was remanded in the Kirikiri Prisons following his arraignment at a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court alongside 10 others on two counts of conspiracy and unlawful killing on July 25.
During Tuesday’s proceedings, the vacation judge, Justice Obafemi Adamson dismissed charge after entertaining submissions from counsels in a counter suit challen

Aides to American President Donald Trump have informed him that due to geography and different time zones, he may not always expect to be put through to other leaders across the world whenever he wants to speak with them.
They informed the American leader that he would have to work with international timing whenever he wants to discuss with his counterparts in other parts of the world.
Donald Trump needs to be reminded on “a constant basis” about time zones when demanding his aides s

Ismail Omipidan
Barring any last minute change of date, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, is expected to hold its primary election for the three senatorial districts on September 18.
But for some reasons, Delta South and Delta North Senatorial Districts present unique picture ahead of the 2019 senatorial election. For Delta South for instance, the incumbent Senator, James Manager, who is seeking a record fifth term will be slugging it out with the immediate past governor

Encouraged by the gale of defections to its fold, the North-West zone of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says it will “capture’’ that geopolitical zone in the 2019 general elections.
Continue reading ‘PDP will “capture’’ North-West geopolitical zone in 2019’ at Vanguard News.

The All Progressives Congress APC has said it has uncovered plans by the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to attack her senators as a way of frustrating their efforts to effect a change in the leadership of the Senate.
Continue reading APC accuses Saraki of ‘High Treason’, says, PDP Planning to Attack our Senators at Vanguard News.

The All Progressives Congress APC has said it has uncovered plans by the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to attack her senators as a way of frustrating their efforts to effect a change in the leadership of the Senate.
Continue reading APC accuses Saraki of ‘High Treasob’, says, PDP Planning to Attack our Senators at Vanguard News.

Encouraged by the gale of defections to its fold, the North-West zone of the Peoples Democratic Party, says it will “capture’’ that geopolitical zone in the 2019 general elections.
Mr Joseph Gumbari, Secretary, North-West zone of the party, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Jos that the defections from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the PDP have strengthened the later to regain the zone it lost in the 2015 polls.
“Sokoto is already in the kitty; Kano

Police said hooligans attacked President Yoweri Museveni’s motorcade and one of his official cars was smashed as he left a campaign rally forcing his security detail to open fire, killing one person instantly in the northwesterndistrict of Arua.
Emilian Kayima in a statement issued late on Monday said that hooligans pelted stones at Museveni’s motorcade as he left Arua Boma Grounds where he had held the last campaign rally for his ruling party candidate, Nusura Tiperu at Prisons Cell

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a $716 billion defense policy bill on Monday that authorizes military spending and includes watered-down controls on U.S. government contracts with China's ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL].

China on Tuesday condemned measures targeting it in a new U.S. defense act, saying it exaggerated antagonism and that Beijing would take a close look at aspects that beef up the role of a U.S. panel that reviews foreign investment proposals.

John Ameh, Abuja
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, have just explained why the National Assembly cannot reconvene now.
They stated that as a prelude to resumption, the Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Electoral Matters and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission would have held a meeting.
Following this, the joint committees were also expected to meet with the joint Senate and House Committees on A

John Ameh, Abuja
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, have just explained why the National Assembly cannot reconvene now.
They stated that as a prelude to resumption, the Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Electoral Matters and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission would have held a meeting.
Following this, the joint committees were also expected to meet with the joint Senate and House Committees on A

Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara, have given reasons why the envisaged reconvening of the two chambers of the National Assembly will not hold in the immediate future and asked legislators to go about their affairs while on holiday.
Continue reading Breaking: Why National Assembly cannot reconvene – Saraki, Dogara at Vanguard News.

Nigerians are tired of the APC and SDP is the alternative, SDP will win, govern well, unify Nigerians and Nigeria will be at peace again.
Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
Prof. Jerry Gana, has warned that any attempt to unleash the anti-corruption forces on him by the current administration will be tantamount to witch-hunting for indicating interest to run against President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election.
The former chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is running on the platfo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, on Monday met behind closed doors in Ogun State.The meeting, which lasted for more than an hour, was held at the residence of the former president in Abe ...

The National Assembly will not reconvene on Tuesday, contrary to the announcement made last week by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yusuf Lasun.The Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Publicity, Abdul-Razak Namdas, co ...